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Posts tagged with 'map' and 'chicago' at MetaFilter.Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:46:39 -0800Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:46:39 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60Chicago Tribune 1934 Chicagoland Road Maphttp://www.metafilter.com/146111/Chicago%2DTribune%2D1934%2DChicagoland%2DRoad%2DMap
<a href="http://imgur.com/tz5yYWZ">Chicago Tribune 1934 Chicagoland Road Map</a> Pre-O'Hare Airport, pre-Interstate Highways. Click 'Download full resolution' to download file. tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.146111Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:46:39 -0800goetheanDouglas?http://www.metafilter.com/124606/Douglas
<a href="http://click-that-hood.herokuapp.com/">Click that 'hood!</a> is a simple game which tasks you to locate neighborhoods in one of six cities: Chicago, IL; Lexington, KY; Louisville, KY; Oakland, CA; San Francisco, CA; and Seattle, WA. An easy game gives you 20 neighborhoods: A hard game gives you the entire city. tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.124606Mon, 04 Feb 2013 17:34:00 -0800shakespeherianChicago gang violencehttp://www.metafilter.com/120255/Chicago%2Dgang%2Dviolence
Chicago's WBEZ has created an <a href="http://www.wbez.org/programs/afternoon-shift/2012-09-24/chicago-gangs-abound-where-are-they-102612">interactive map</a> of the city and where its various gangs operate, using data provided by the Chicago Police Department. <a href="http://chicagoist.com/2012/09/25/wbez_interactive_gang_map_paints_in.php">Chicagoist</a> considers the map and its implications while <a href="http://progressillinois.com/posts/content/2012/09/10/new-face-chicago-gang-violence">Progress Illinois</a> discusses the changing nature of gang violence. tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.120255Tue, 25 Sep 2012 09:19:15 -0800shakespeherianFor font nerds AND map nerds.http://www.metafilter.com/96677/For%2Dfont%2Dnerds%2DAND%2Dmap%2Dnerds
<a href="http://www.axismaps.com/typographic.php?ref=nf">Typographic Maps.</a> "These unique maps accurately depict the streets and highways, parks, neighborhoods, coastlines, and physical features of the city using nothing but type." tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.96677Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:16:23 -0800jacquilynneAmazing map exhibitionhttp://www.metafilter.com/72278/Amazing%2Dmap%2Dexhibition
<a href="http://www.thewalters.org/maps/exhibitions_images.html">Maps: Finding our place in the world</a> is an exhibit at the Walters Art Gallery in Baltimore, and it runs until this Sunday June 8. That page contains images of a few of the maps. One of the many great things included is an <a href="http://www.brightcove.tv/title.jsp?title=1119147737&channel=714332816">animated map of the US Civil War in 4 minutes</a> (one week per second, timeline noted at bottom, casualty counter rolling in bottom right corner - <a href="http://www.lincolnlibraryandmuseum.com/m5.htm">info about this animation</a>) <a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/books/akerman/index.html">The exhibition book</a> was previously <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/67748/A-collection-of-unusual-maps">linked</a> here; that site includes higher-resolution versions of some more of the maps. I was floored by all the stuff they have; in terms of the rarity of the stuff in it, and the geek-delight factor, I think it's probably the best gallery show I've ever seen. The show includes: maps made by Davinci, Geo Washington, Thos Jefferson, Abe Lincoln, Cortes, and others; the first geologic map; the 1982 first map of ARPAnet, a map of the distribution of whales in the Atlantic in the late 1700s commissioned by Ben Franklin; a Marshall islands stick map; a carved nubbly chunk of wood carved into a map of the coast of Greenland; maps sewn onto silk by medieval Mediterranean sailors; Japanese, Indian, medieval European pilgrimage maps; maps made by indigenous people on every inhabited continent; the first relief map; the chart Charles Lindbergh used on his transAtlantic flight; the map that settled the boundary of the US at the surrender at Yorktown; Lewis and Clark's map; the map that historians think is the oldest city map, on a clay tablet from Sumeria; demographic and experimental maps from the social consciousness movements of the late 19th c; the <a href="http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/posters">Minard map</a> of Napoleon's Russian campaign (so praised by Edward Tufte); the first Mercator projection map; maps of fictional places made by Tolkien, Frank Baum, and others; and on and on. The show includes images from the Hubble telescope and local artists' alternative mappings of Baltimore, too.
If you are interested in maps, history, or information design <i>at all</i> you should try to see this show; it is just breathtaking.
<small>The exhibit was organized by the Field Museum in Chicago, and was shown there first. I don't know if it's going to visit other cities; I believe I read something suggesting it wasn't, but I can't find confirmation of that now. </small> tag:metafilter.com,2008:site.72278Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:48:27 -0800LobsterMittenChicago: Bang! Bang!http://www.metafilter.com/42120/Chicago%2DBang%2DBang
<a href="http://www.chicagocrime.org">Chicagocrime.org</a> takes the Chicago Police Department's <a href="http://12.17.79.6/">Citizen ICAM</a> and puts it into an easily searchable -- by <a href="http://www.chicagocrime.org/types/bomb_threat/192/">crime type</a>, <a href="http://www.chicagocrime.org/streets/state_st/">street</a>, <a href="http://www.chicagocrime.org/2005/may/05/">date</a>, <a href="http://www.chicagocrime.org/districts/25/">district</a> or <a href="http://www.chicagocrime.org/locations/barbershop/">location type</a> -- format, along with a Google Map. Who knew <a href="http://www.chicagocrime.org/locations/police_facility/">police station parking lots</a> were so dangerous? tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.42120Thu, 19 May 2005 13:13:00 -0800me3dia